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Cosmocat

(14,543 posts)
45. SPOT ON!
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 12:16 PM
Mar 2016

My time frame is similar, I was a young adult in the 90s when the media started to sit on its hands and just allow republicans to say the most intellectually dishonest things you can imagine without challenging it. Unchecked they went got more and more bellicose until BHO got elected, and someone reached a new, super hysterical level of it.

We are here today because this country, the media in particular, have spent the last three decades indulging right wing stupidyt, and unchecked they have only gotten more and more worse over time.

No moron.. sendero Mar 2016 #1
exactly AgerolanAmerican Mar 2016 #58
Quotes like this make liberals look bad oberliner Mar 2016 #2
Conservatives think they're smarter than everyone else too gollygee Mar 2016 #4
Yes, indeed oberliner Mar 2016 #5
IMO that stereotype is LiberalElite Mar 2016 #8
But look at that quote oberliner Mar 2016 #9
Yes, but Borowitz is talking to non-Trump conservatives about Trump supporters Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2016 #12
But Trump supporters can post the quote on social media oberliner Mar 2016 #15
They've been talking and thinking that way for decades. They are basically a lost cause. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2016 #41
Yes, it's demeaning.. it's supposed to be. Trump LOVES the uneducated! mountain grammy Mar 2016 #17
But that leaves the long term problem unfixed muriel_volestrangler Mar 2016 #21
Ted Cruz lies just as much on the campaign trail oberliner Mar 2016 #23
Looking for an objective count, not as much muriel_volestrangler Mar 2016 #30
Check out this article oberliner Mar 2016 #33
150 years ago, 1866 Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2016 #11
From that same Parliamentary debate oberliner Mar 2016 #14
So What It's True billhicks76 Mar 2016 #19
Don't tell a person that they are ugly, even if they are oberliner Mar 2016 #24
It made Mush Limpballs a big talk show host mdbl Mar 2016 #25
Exactly oberliner Mar 2016 #26
Hmmmm.... I see what you are saying, but at the same time I know that the purposeful GreenPartyVoter Mar 2016 #53
I agree, and I don't think it's true. Oneironaut Mar 2016 #55
Well put oberliner Mar 2016 #56
K & R. Thanks for posting. Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 #3
Andy dropped his usual humor for more direct truth. Duppers Mar 2016 #6
You hit on the real problem, too many people in power and or with money A Simple Game Mar 2016 #22
Yes, *occasionally* is the word. Duppers Mar 2016 #27
I'm also thinking of things besides politics. A Simple Game Mar 2016 #38
Hey That's LiberalElite Mar 2016 #7
No, I disagree. malthaussen Mar 2016 #10
Both are an issue. Too many parents think that an education only means getting good grades Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2016 #13
But that is how the system works, my dear professor... malthaussen Mar 2016 #16
An education is NOT antithetical to "getting your ticket punched" Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2016 #39
Certainly not antithetical... malthaussen Mar 2016 #50
Can a education system be an outgrowth of a controlled society? A Simple Game Mar 2016 #31
It is an outgrowth of society, whether controlled or otherwise... malthaussen Mar 2016 #51
My point is that a controlled society will limit the kinds of education to what is A Simple Game Mar 2016 #52
Certainly, but the controllers of society are also... malthaussen Mar 2016 #54
The controllers could be like a tumor, benign or malignant. Lots of ways for them to A Simple Game Mar 2016 #57
K&R. Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2016 #18
I love Andy Borowitz Gothmog Mar 2016 #20
Nonsense. Charter schools obviously fixed American education. merrily Mar 2016 #28
When a group of educators gather in a room for a discussion, the first one to say A Simple Game Mar 2016 #34
Secretary Arne Duncan. merrily Mar 2016 #35
I think you proved my point, thanks. n/t A Simple Game Mar 2016 #40
I see your education did not kill your imagination or, um, self-esteem. Kudos. merrily Mar 2016 #42
Nor yours, thanks and kudos in return. n/t A Simple Game Mar 2016 #43
Dude, I neither fired the first shot nor dissed your knowledge. Stop projecting. merrily Mar 2016 #44
I think you took my post wrong. I never fired a shot nor did I think you did. A Simple Game Mar 2016 #46
I imputed a different intent to your post. My apologies. merrily Mar 2016 #47
No problem, and I often have the "I know what I mean" thinking and don't explain things concisely. A Simple Game Mar 2016 #48
The MEDIA--RW radio, FOX, and all the rest of the media... ReallyIAmAnOptimist Mar 2016 #29
As my mother in law was wont to say, "It's a combination of everything." merrily Mar 2016 #36
SPOT ON! Cosmocat Mar 2016 #45
It is not that they are ignorant zalinda Mar 2016 #32
Short sighted is kind. Not to sound like Agnew, but many of them seem to me like nascent neo Nazis merrily Mar 2016 #37
So they're educated, but don't have "smartiness"? nt Wounded Bear Mar 2016 #49
Bumper sticker Rebkeh Mar 2016 #59
I agree liberalfromaustin21 Mar 2016 #60
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